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Its mostly beneficial for me - helps me hear melodies and rhythms in my head, and if I have something working the weed defo gets me excited about the music.

Only real problem I've ever had is smoking in the middle of the process if I've had a few beers and getting that uncomfortable physical feeling of being too high - really tough to slide quantize your drums when you feel like you should be laying down

I can't focus at all while I'm stoned on the computer. But, if I've been working on a tune for hours smoking a bowl to the last listen through or two of the night is the way to go. Turn off the monitor screen and just zone out. I prefer espresso or a few heavily hopped ales while I'm working.

It's all down to whatever floats your boat.
Personally, i used to have a smoke years ago when trying to make music, i remember being hypnotised by a loop and listening to things for ages thinking that they were the greatest sounds i'd ever heard.
Didn't do anything for my objectivity.

Smoke doesn't work for me but I've spent the last 20 hours making music on speed and really I didn't expect it would be so much fun. Maximum concentration, no sense of frustration. I learnt lots of things during the session.

I write, produce and mix pretty much all my tracks with a spliff going or a pipe burning. I find there's no difference from when I'm sober, except my conception of time fucks up when I'm stoned. I can sit for hours without moving, suddenly "wake up" and realise I haven't eaten, drunk or taken a piss for ages. I'm also pretty good at math when high... And I can lick my own elbow. But that's not because I'm high, that's because I'm hypermobile! And high!

i was talking to the man up there who said that he wasn't going to do any production cos he couldn't pick up. it's one thing getting a bit high then listening to music (one of life's great pleasures) but if it gets to the stage that you cannot be creative without it, then i reckon you need to nip that shit in the bud - no pun intended